31978R2485

No L 299 / 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 10 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2485 /78 of 25 October 1978 terminating the conclusion of short-term private storage contracts in respect of table wine of type A I and table wines in close economic relationship to that type of wine

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of table wine to which they are closely related econom­ COMMUNITIES, ically ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 844/78 of Economic Community, 26 April 1978 (3) on private storage aid for table wine of type A I provides for the grant of private storage aid Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No from 27 April 1978 for table wine of type A I ; 816/70 of 28 April 1970 laying down additional provi­ sions for the common organization of the market in Whereas Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 898 /78 of wine (! ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 28 April 1978 (4) enabled short-term private storage 1861 /78 (2), and in particular Article 5 (7) thereof, contracts to be concluded from 29 April 1978 in respect of table wines closely related economically to Whereas Article 5 ( 1 ) of the said Regulation intro­ the A I type of table wine ; ducing a system of aid for the private storage of table Whereas it has been established that the representa­ wine lays down that the granting of such aid is to be tive price for table wine of type A I during the past subject to the conclusion of short-term or long-term storage contracts ; whereas the first subparagraph of two weeks has been higher than the activating price ; paragraph 2 of the said Article lays down that short­ Whereas the conditions set out in Article 5 (2) of term storage contracts may be entered into when the Regulation ( EEC) No 816/70 are therefore fulfilled, representative price of a type of table wine remains below the activating price for two consecutive weeks HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : and that such contracts may no longer be entered into when the representative price of that type of wine is Article 1 above the activating price for two consecutive weeks ; whereas, moreover, the second subparagraph of the No short-term private storage contracts may be said paragraph 2 lays down that a decision may be entered into in respect of table wine of type A I or taken to allow short-term contracts to be concluded table wines closely related economically to that type also in respect of table wines other than those of the of wine . type for which this possibility has been made avail­ able, where such wines are closely related economi­ Article 2 cally to that type of table wine ; whereas short-term contracts may no longer be entered into in respect of This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 October 1978 . these wines when they are not permissible in respect

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 25 October 1978 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President

(») OJ No L 99, 5 . 5 . 1970, p. 1 . ( ) OJ No L 115, 27 . 4. 1978 , p. 38 . (2) OJ No L 215, 4. 8 . 1978 , p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 117, 29 . 4. 1978 , p. 62.